Word: bhutto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contrast to the sports-and-celebrity-heavy format of its early days, the newscast now stresses social issues of interest to young people, with enterprising stories on the homeless, teens in prison and endangered wolves. It has featured interviews with Janet Reno, Benazir Bhutto and Mikhail Gorbachev--who dropped by Channel One's Hollywood studio for the chat. The news program won a prestigious Peabody Award for its coverage of aids, and in 1994 beat out such network competition as Prime Time Live for an award at the Chicago Film Festival...
Nonetheless, for most of the women who had come from far corners of the earth to express their solidarity, even a damp sojourn under a heavy official hand proved exhilarating. If Clinton did not impress a delegate, perhaps Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto did, or Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi, who appeared in a specially recorded videotape that was smuggled out of Rangoon...
...easy to downplay the global nature of the problem and focus on just one place. Benazir Bhutto won high praise for using her podium time in Beijing to criticize the Chinese treatment of women. What neither she nor the press mentioned is that in Pakistan, female rape victims are subject to prison sentences for "adultery." Bhutto once promised to end this stunningly malicious practice, but backed off rather than offend the local mullahs...
...Bhutto's] gift and the effort to raise additional support is a foundation stone in our efforts to build what we intend to be the most important Center for study of Islamic law in the United States and perhaps the world," Law School Dean Robert C. Clark said in the press release...
Vogel said that Bhutto and the Pakistani government were approached for the endowment as part of a campaign to give the center international support...